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What's New
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>> The following are among those articles and features revised over the past month:
New pictures:
Astronaut's helmet
Dr. Christiaan Barnard performing open-heart surgery
Genetically modified tomatoes
Hawksbill sea turtle
Modern combat helmet
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
Processing biofuel
Terraced field in China
The Orion spacecraft
New articles:
Artificial vision
Lee Myung-bak (South Korean political leader)
Sir Henry Parkes (Australian politician and writer)
Sustainable agriculture (farming method)
Asif Ali Zardari (Pakistani political leader)
Quentin Bryce (Govenor General of Australia)
Malcolm Turnbull (Australian politician)
John Key (New Zealand Prime Minister)
New dictionary entries:
blogosphere
cane toad
Revised articles:
Assassination
Civilization
Inflation
Benjamin Netanyahu
Recession
Announcing
Exciting New Enhancements to
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
World Book's beginning Spanish-language reference site, will be
launched in early September with a new design, new content, and
additional functionality.
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Coming Soon!
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Scheduled for September 2009 -
>> Expanded articles on 13 Australian Prime Ministers
(Kevin Rudd, John Howard, Robert Menzies, Malcolm Fraser, Robert Hawke,
William Hughes, Joseph Lyons, Andrew Fisher, Paul Keating, John Curtin,
Gough Whitlam, Edmund Barton, and Harold Holt).
>> Australia Day article will be revised and greatly expanded.
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Reviews
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>> Review of Public Library Edition
"Just How Good Is It On a Scale of One to Ten?
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for all public libraries."
Cheryl LaGuardia
Research Librarian Harvard University
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Important Dates & Events
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September 1, 1939 - German troops invaded Poland, starting World War II in Europe.
September 1 - September 7 - National Asthma Week
September 2, 1666 - Great Fire of London began.
September 2, 1945 - V-J Day; Japan surrendered in World War II.
September 3 - 108th Australia Flag Day
September 3, 1899 - Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Australian doctor and expert on virus disease, born.
September 7, 1815 - John McDouall Stuart, explorer of australia, born in Scotland.
September 7, 1940 - Blitz of London in World War II began.
September 9, 1911 - John Gorton, Australian prime minister from 1968 - 1971, born.
September 11, 2001 - Terrorists crashed jetliners into the World Trade Center in New York City and into the Pentagon Building near Washington.
September 12, 1959 - Russians launched first rocket to the moon.
September 13, 1916 - Roald Dahl, famous British writer best known as an author of children's books, born.
September 20, 1880 - Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse, born.
September 23, 1846 - Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet neptune.
September 24, 1898 - Howard Florey, Australian scientist and codiscoverer of penicillin, born.
September 24, 1914 - Sir John Kerr, governor-general of Australia from 1974 - 1977, born.
September 25, 1862 - William Hughes, Australian politician, born.
September 25, 1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon, New Zealand prime minister from 1975 - 1984, born.
September 28, 1844 - Robert Stout, Premier from 1884 - 1887 and Chief Justice of New Zealand, born.
October 1, 1949 - People's Republic of China was established.
October 5, 1582 - Gregorian calendar introduced.
October 7, 1769 - James Cook, British navigator, sighted the coast of New Zealand.
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